Danish restaurant adds sex toys to menu

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September 25, 2014: If waitresses wearing tank tops and hot pants aren't sexy enough for you, an eatery in Denmark is raising the bar by opening a sex shop today. Copenhagen's Hot Buns is set to start selling Fifty Shades of Grey-licensed dildos and whips along with gastroburgers and shakes. "On Friday and Saturday nights there are only two things most people want: sex and food. We're combining them both," owner Mathias Kær told The Local. We're hoping the new menu items are takeaway. A dine-in option has the potential to upset more people than any of the following controversial themed restaurants.

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Death Row Dinners

A pop-up eatery proposed for London in September invited criticism, and publicity, with its controversial business plan. Death Row Dinners promised to serve up some of the "most interesting and popular last dinners" ever eaten before execution, but critics have been outraged by the idea, the Independent reported. The restaurateurs apologised for the offence and had cancelled their plans by the end of the month.

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Kryjivka

Lviv in Ukraine is home to a few controversial restaurants, including a basement bar named Kryjivka. The pigs' ears on the menu aren't the concern. The venue is themed around the underground bunkers the Ukrainian Insurgent Army used in the 1940s. The anti-Soviet guerrilla group was accused of ethnic cleansing in Poland and being Nazi collaborators, Public Radio International reported. You can still take pot shots with a BB gun at a portrait of Stalin, if you like.

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Masoch-café

The Masoch-café is one of Lviv's other controversial culinary destinations. The cafe is kind of a tribute to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the Lviv-born writer who gave masochism its name, PRI reports. But it's themed more around sadomasochism than literature. Leather-clad waitresses will chain you to your chair if you're that way inclined.

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Hooters

Hooters' staff uniforms and recruitment ... proclivities have long attracted condemnation. The US restaurant chain brought all that baggage to Australia when it opened in Parramatta in 2006 and the company revisits that criticism every time it opens a new venue. It's most recent venture in Townsville invited criticism that a restaurant wasn't suitable for the suburbs, the Townsville Bulletin reported in March. But the venue was eventually approved by Queensland authorities and Hooters Girls will start serving their world-famous chicken wings and breasts later this year.

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Kuma's Corner

Chicago heavy metal-themed restaurant Kuma's Corner isn't that controversial in itself, but one item on the menu earned them a heightened level of notoriety last year: a burger served with a red wine reduction and an unconsecrated communion wafer. This (mis)representation of the body and blood of Jesus Christ of course offended Catholics. "It is a mockery of something that is holy," Catholic Foodie blogger Jeff Young told the Chicago Tribune.

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Twin Peaks

Given the obvious similarities to their business model, US restaurant chain Twin Peaks attracts the same criticism as Hooters. Residents of Abilene, Texas, objected to the punning eatery taking over a much-loved Italian restaurant's premises, KTXS reported last year. This time the God-fearing residents of the Lone Star State won. If need be, the closest Hooters is two hours away in Fort Worth. Waitresses are also graded according to their appearance before each shift, Bloomberg reported.

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Twin Peeks

Speaking of puns, we found Sydney's Twin Peeks Lingerie Restaurant when searching for Twin Peaks. It's not controversial. We just like puns. Nice search engine optimisation there, Twin Peeks.

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Bacon Bacon

Apparently you can have too much bacon, as residents living near Bacon Bacon in San Francisco will tell you. The restaurant was shut down in May last year after neighbours complained the smell of cooking 135kg of bacon each day was offensive. Customers lobbied to save their Bacon Bacon restaurant and so it returned, after the owners agreed to install a filtration system, US Today reported.

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La Mafia

La Mafia restaurants had been operating in Spain since 2000 before Italians started complaining about the crime theme this year, the UK's Telegraph reported. Italian parliamentary anti-mafia commission member Giuseppe Lumia said he would lobby the Italian government to put pressure on Spain to force the chain of 34 restaurants to change the name.

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Hitlers' Cross

There's no doubt about the controversial nature of Hitlers' Cross in India. It can't be explained away as an ancient Hindu symbol and that errant apostrophe is outrageous. Mumbai's Jewish community campaigned against the name and symbolism of the restaurant, which owner Puneet Sablok agreed were only there to attract attention, Associated Press reported in 2006. The business later changed its name to the Cross Café. (Image: Getty)

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Soldaten Kaffee

Fascist-themed cafes might not seem a great idea but it's business as usual at Indonesia's Soldaten Kaffee. Indonesian authorities were asked to investigate the cafe, which opened in 2011 with a Nazi theme. The owner temporarily closed his business amid criticism but reopened in June this year, with a much broader range of World War II memorabilia, NBC News reported.

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Bin Laden's Cave

There are a dozen Osama bin Laden-themed eateries in Brazil vying for attention, according to Vocativ. Bin Laden's Cave, for example, promotes itself as "the place where the Taliban gather". And if you were in the Taliban, wouldn't that be exactly where you'd gather, hiding in plain sight? Nobody seems particularly bothered by the use of the name, though, with visitors keen to pose for photographs with Osama look-alike proprietors. (Image: Getty)

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Modern Toilet

While not strictly controversial, Modern Toilet in Taiwan does strike us as an uncomfortable reminder of the least appetising part of the food digestion process. Customers sit on toilet chairs and eat out of toilet bowls. Sorry, miniature toilet bowls, not actual toilet bowls. We can only imagine the actual bathrooms are in immaculate condition.